Philip Nyhus is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Colby College. His scholarship is interdisciplinary, straddling the natural and social sciences. He has particular interest and expertise in tiger conservation, human-wildlife conflict, the human dimension of large mammal conservation, GIS, interdisciplinary approaches to wildlife risk assessment, and environmental policy.
1. Tigers
Tigers of the World: The Biology, Politics, and Conservation of Panthera tigris (2nd edition) (with Ronald L. Tilson) (2010)
The second edition of Tigers of the World explores tiger biology, ecology, conservation, management, and...
The Conservation Value of Tigers: Separating Science from Fiction (with Ron L. Tilson), Journal of the WildCat Legal Aid Society (2009)
The status and evolution of laws and policies regulating privately owned tigers in the United States (with Michael Ambrogi, Caitlin Dufraine, Alan Shoemaker, and Ronald L. Tilson), Journal of the WildCat Conservation Legal Aid Society (2009)
Characterizing human-tiger conflict in Sumatra, Indonesia: implications for conservation (with Ronald Tilson), Oryx (2004)
Human-tiger conflict occurs in Indonesia but there is little recent information about the scope of...
Dramatic decline of wild South China tigers Panthera tigris amoyensis: field survey of priority tiger reserves (with Ronald Tilson, Hu Defu, and Jeff Muntifering), Oryx (2004)
This paper describes results of a Sino- American field survey seeking evidence of South China...
2. Human-wildlife conflict
The Conservation Value of Tigers: Separating Science from Fiction (with Ron L. Tilson), Journal of the WildCat Legal Aid Society (2009)
The status and evolution of laws and policies regulating privately owned tigers in the United States (with Michael Ambrogi, Caitlin Dufraine, Alan Shoemaker, and Ronald L. Tilson), Journal of the WildCat Conservation Legal Aid Society (2009)
Characterizing human-tiger conflict in Sumatra, Indonesia: implications for conservation (with Ronald Tilson), Oryx (2004)
Human-tiger conflict occurs in Indonesia but there is little recent information about the scope of...
Dangerous animals in captivity: Ex situ tiger conflict and implication for private ownership of exotic animals (with Ronald L. Tilson and J L. Tomlinson), Zoo Biology (2003)
The risks associated with tiger attacks on people in the wild are well documented. There...
Taking the bite out of wildlife damage: The challenges of wildlife compensation schemes (with Hank Fisher, Steve Osofsky, and Francine Madden), Conservation Magazine (formerly Conservation in Practice) (2003)
3. Conservation
The Conservation Value of Tigers: Separating Science from Fiction (with Ron L. Tilson), Journal of the WildCat Legal Aid Society (2009)
The status and evolution of laws and policies regulating privately owned tigers in the United States (with Michael Ambrogi, Caitlin Dufraine, Alan Shoemaker, and Ronald L. Tilson), Journal of the WildCat Conservation Legal Aid Society (2009)
Tackling Biocomplexity with Meta-models for Species Risk Assessment (with Robert C. Lacy, Francis R. Westley, Philip S. Miller, Harrie Harrie Vredenburg, Paul C. Paquet, and John Pollak), Ecology and Society (2007)
We describe results of a multi-year effort to strengthen consideration of the human dimension into...
Dramatic decline of wild South China tigers Panthera tigris amoyensis: field survey of priority tiger reserves (with Ronald Tilson, Hu Defu, and Jeff Muntifering), Oryx (2004)
This paper describes results of a Sino- American field survey seeking evidence of South China...
Wildlife knowledge among migrants in southern Sumatra, Indonesia: implications for conservation (with Sumianto Tilson and Ronald Tilson), Environmental Conservation (2003)
The value of traditional ecological knowledge for biodiversity research and conservation is widely recognized. The...